Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enjoying evil for its own sake, the Captain reduces Brother Matthew to a state of misery by destroying his faith in God and man. He ferrets out Nephew Romney's deep tangled secrets, laying him bare and vulnerable, enjoys exposing the boy to a crass prostitute. Weasel-like, soft-footed, he discovers that his spinster sister's love letters are written by and to herself. He relishes the joke, pretends to sympathize, but uses the knowledge to get money out of her. Even the servants are not exempt from his influence...
...helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate. For two years thereafter he retired to Mexico to write a book (Mexico and Its Heritage], but in 1927 he was back in the U. S., founding the Evening News at Portland, Me. There he promptly discovered another evil worthy of his attack. The Insull utilities, developing Maine's water power, wanted the privilege of selling that power in adjoining States. Dr. Gruening led and won the fight to keep Maine's power in Maine and thereafter became a prime foe of public utilities (TIME, Sept...
...Carry before you the conquering symbol of the swastika. We must be hard if we would conquer. A curse upon sympathy and mercy! Praised be that which makes us hard and cold, so that we may unmoved see the destruction of the evil sons of sound fathers...
...Florey was the son of a publican in a Cornish raining town that had fallen on evil days. A bright lad, Tom dreamed of a brighter future than tending bar, and his schoolmasters wanted him to try for a scholarship at Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love...
...Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was the child of a middle-class professional family of Madrid which had fallen on evil days. Miguel left home early to seek his fortune. In Italy he became a Spanish footsoldier, lounged about Rome and Naples in a brilliant uniform with little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet...